Workshop on National Webs

December 8-9, 2016, Aarhus University and the State Library, Denmark

Thursday 8 December

10:15-10:45 Analysing national webs — why and what? by Niels Brügger, Aarhus University

10:45-11:15 Studying the web in the shadow of Uncle Sam: The difficult case of the Canadian web sphere by Ian Milligan, The University of Waterloo

11:15-11:45 Webarchiving before the web archive: how to reconstruct and save the national Dutch web using historical methods by Kees Teszelszky, Nationale Bibliotheek van Nederland

11:45-12:15 Cultural Heritage Cluster — a HPC for studying cultural heritage Big Data by Per Møldrup-Dalum, the State Library

113:15-13:45 Profiling National Webs by Courtney C. Mumma, The Internet Archive

13:45-14:15 Probing the Danish Web Domain 2005-2015 by Janne Nielsen, Ditte Laursen, Ulrich Have, Aarhus University & The Royal Library

14:15-15:00 Tour at the State Library — the tower and the Netarkivet servers

15:30-16:00 The Colors of the National Web — the color histogram of the .yu domain (hands-on) by Anat Ben-David, The Open University of Israel

Friday 9 December

10:00-10:30 Understanding Euroscepticism Through the Lens of Big-Data by Federico Nanni, The University of Bologna and the University of Mannheim

10:30-11:00 Towards a national web in a federated country: a Belgian case study by Sally Chambers, DARIAH-BE, Ghent University

11:30-12:00 Kosovo on the Web: A national web history of a country without a domain, by Anat Ben-David, The Open University of Israel

12:00-12:30 Exploring and mapping the «French Web» of the 90s: between close and distant reading, small and big data by Valérie Schafer, The French National Center for Scientific Research

13:30-14:00 Negotiating the archives of UK web space by Jane Winters, University of London

14:00-14:30 The Nation Is In The Network – Locating National Museums Online by Rebecca Kahn, King’s College London & Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

14:30-15:00 Understanding the limitations of the ccTLD as a proxy for the national web:lessons from cross-border religion in the Northern Irish web sphere by Peter Webster, Webster Research and Consulting

15:30-16:00 A national and trans-national Web Trend Index — why and how? by Niels Brügger, Aarhus University